musketeer, musketier, musqueteer

[Fr. mousquetaire.] A soldier armed with a mus ket. "Since the beginning of the seventeenth century, a great change had taken place in the arms of the infantry. The pike had been gradually given place to the musket: and at the close of the reign of Charles II. most of his foot were musketeers . Still, however, there was a large intermixture of pikemen."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. ii. *mus-ke-toe, s. [MOSQUITO.] *mus-ket-oôn, s. [Fr. mousqueton; Ital. mos chettone ; Sp. mosque ton .] 1. A short musket or carbine with a wide bore, used by cavalry and artillery previous to the intro duction of breechloaders. "With burnished brand and musketoon , So gallantly you come." Scott: Rokeby, iii. 17. 2. A soldier armed with a musketoon. mus'-kět-rỹ, s. [Eng. musket; -ry.] 1. Muskets collectively. 2. A body of troops armed with mu kets. 3. The fire of musketry. 4. The art or science of firing small-arms. musk'-I-ne , s . [English musky ; -ne .] The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk. *mŭsk-mil-ion (1 as y), s. [MUSKMELON.] musk-ỹ, a. [English musk; -y.] Smelling like musk; resembling musk; fragrant. "West winds with musky wing." musky-mole, s. Milton: Comus, 989. Zool.: Scaptochirus moschatus. It closely resembles the European mole, Talpa europe a , but the fur is softer, and of a light grayish-brown, with a tawny tinge. It was discovered in Chinese Mongolia by the Abbé David. Muş-lim, s . [MOSLEM.] muş-lin, *mus-se-lin, s . & a. [Fr. mou eline, from Ital. mu olnio , mu olo = muslin, from Syriac Mosul , the name of a city in Kurdistan, in the east of Turkey in Asia, where, according to Marco Polo, it was first manufactured.] A. As substantive: 1. Fabric : A bleached or unbleached thin cotton cloth, white, printed, or dyed. Varieties are known musk-wood, s. Bot.: (1) Moschoxylum swartzii growing in Jamaica; (2) [MUSK-TREE.] mŭsk, v. t. [MUSK, 8.] To perfume with musk. mus-kal-lõnge, s. [MASKINONGE.]